
Belle "Polly" Pollard", circa 1920




Lyda Belle Pollard was born on 13 December 1897 at
Monroe County, Missouri.
6,7,1 She was the daughter of
Walter Harris Pollard and
Mary Rovilla Cox.
1,3,4,2,5 Lyda died on 1 December 1989 at age 91 years, 11 months and 18 days at
in Kirkwood, St. Louis County, Missouri.
2,8 She was buried on 2 December 1989 at
in Columbia, Boone County, Missouri.
2,9 Lyda was also known as Polly Pollard. She was also called Belle Pollard.
10,11 The twelfth United States census was taken in 1900. Belle was enumerated in the household of
Walter Harris Pollard as his daughter, "Lydabelle Pollard", at Union Township, at Monroe County, Missouri. Her given age was 2, and she was said to have been born in Missouri in December 1897.
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The thirteenth United States census was taken in 1910. Belle was enumerated in the household of
Walter Harris Pollard as his daughter, "Lydabelle Pollard", at Union Township, at Monroe County, Missouri. Her given age was 12 and her given place of birth was Missouri. She attended school.
4 The fourteenth United States census was taken in 1920. Belle was enumerated in the household of
Louis Ephraim Young as his sister-in-law, "Belle Pollard", at Union Township, at Monroe County, Missouri. Her given age was 22 and her given place of birth was Missouri. She was single, and was a teacher at the public school.
5 Belle acquired a one-eighth interest in 145 acres
Lafayette County, Missouri from
Mary Rovilla Cox 20 November 1924 Mary Rovilla had inherited the one-eighth interest from her mother, Eliza Fletcher Cox. She gave it to her daughter, Belle, to fund her college education.
12 The fifteenth United States census was taken in 1930. Belle was enumerated in the household of
Mack R. Fritts as "Belle Pollard", at Lebanon, at Laclede County, Missouri. Her given age was 28, and she was said to have been born in Missouri. She was a teacher at the public school. She was a boarder at the Fritts home, and was single.
11 Belle was an educator, and the author of home economics textbooks. She was Supervisor of Home Economics for the St. Louis Public Schools until she retired, around 1955 at
St. Louis, (Independent City), Missouri.
The cause of Lyda's death was possible pneumonia, with senile dementia, arterslcerotic heart disease and degenerative osteoarthritis.
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